Thursday, August 1, 2013

Now for a little bit of Scouse...

M: While Jenna is busy playing with boxes and moving things from one house to another, I thought I'd take this opportunity to share with you a video of my own choosing. An 'answer,' of sorts, to her David Tennant sonnet-reading selection.

First of all, it seems telling that one of the first videos to come up in a quick YouTube search for Jamie Carragher is titled, "Jamie Carragher Butchers the English Language (with subtitles)."

Personally, I don't think he "butchers" it so much as makes it painfully (delightfully) obvious that he's from Liverpool. Well, Bootle... Anyways, enjoy!

Practically hypnotic...

And because Jenna isn't here to stop me, here's another video to point out that even English people puzzle over Carra. It also happens to feature Mr. Jordan Henderson and his lovely Sunderland accent. Personally, I enjoy the occasional 'me' in place of 'my'....

(And for the record, Darren Farley does some pretty exceptional impressions...)

We can explain...

A hundred years ago, when we were in high school, we bonded over our mutual love of Irish culture. With a little hard work and one traumatizing Student Senate experience, The Irish American Club was born!

Though the club accomplished nothing more than holding a St. Patrick's Day bake sale (which funded some seriously rad t-shirts), we're back again for another try. This time, it's different (we swear!).

We recently spent a year studying beginning Irish Gaelic at the Irish Cultural Center in Kansas City, Missouri. We also both own laptops and enough expendable income to find and view plenty of movies. Then there's the matter of all the time we've discovered we have since graduating from college...

Bottom line: Blog with a Brogue is a chance for us, and you, to delve a little deeper into one of the things we find most fascinating about Irish (or any) culture: the accent. In this blog, we're featuring accents from the Atlantic Archipelago, which includes Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England.

Sit back, grab a pint of your favorite beverage (if it's in a pint glass, it counts), and enjoy!